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Satellite image Desecheo from Rincón. Desecheo (Spanish: Isla Desecheo) (Spanish pronunciation: [deseˈtʃeo]) is a small uninhabited island of the archipelago of Puerto Rico in the northeast of the Mona Passage; 13 mi (21 km) from the municipality of Rincón on the west coast (Punta Higüero) of the main island of Puerto Rico and 31 mi (50 km) northeast of Mona Island.
Clipperton Island: TX5K Made more than 113,000 contacts including 47 EME contacts. [17] 2012 Campbell Island: ZL9HR [18] 2007 Scarborough Shoal: BS7H: located on a rock less than six feet above sea level, 5th most wanted DXCC location [19] 1978 Clipperton Island: FO0XB: First DXpedition to the island in 20 years, 38th most wanted DXCC location ...
In October 2011, the T32C Kiritimati (Christmas Island, eastern Kiribati) DXpedition, run by the Five Star DXers Association, claimed 213,169 contacts. This broke the February 2008 record set by the Ducie Island (eastern Pitcairn group ) DXpedition, which claimed 183,686 QSOs under the callsign VP6DX.
Although Puerto Rico has no natural units in the National Park System, the biodiversity of the island is recognized and protected through a national forest, a national wildlife refuge, a national wilderness, and numerous state parks (called national parks in Puerto Rico [1]), nature reserves, state forests, wildlife preserves and other ...
From 1940 to 1952 the island was used as a practice target for aerial bombardment by the US War Department and from 1952 to 1960 Desecheo was used as a survival training area for the U.S. Air Force. Although formerly containing a colony of 15,000 brown boobies and 10,000 red-footed boobies , currently no successful booby breeding is known to ...
The area is home to 206 bird species, and, in the past, it used to contain the largest flocks of Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) in the island. [13] 8 Cayo Ratones: Cabo Rojo: 2005 1 Small island located off the coast of Cabo Rojo, the protected area is the smallest in Puerto Rico and it includes the island and its surrounding coral ...
The FCC allows the use of special event "1x1" call signs to denote special occasions such as a club's anniversary, a historic event or even a DXpedition. As an example, the call sign "N8S" was used for the April 2007 DXpedition to Swains Island in American Samoa. These call signs start with the letters K, N or W, followed by a single numeral ...
Following a series of failed eradication attempts in 2012, Island Conservation led a group of international experts to identify challenges on tropical islands [63] resulting in recommend practices for tropical rodent eradications. [64] Applying these lessons [65] following a failed attempt on Desecheo island 2017 resulted in success.